Another very cool fossil site in LA is the La Brea Tar Pits museum, which still has tar pits on the museum grounds, and has real sabre-tooths (lions) and other critters like mammoths that got trapped in the tar pits.
hodgesrm 42 days ago [-]
The coolest and most surprising part is that the tar pits are still there! Apparently the seeps have been there for tens of thousands of years. [0] (Fun LA tourist activity: jump in yourself and contribute to the fossil record.)
I was similarly surprised to find that something similar occurs on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico. This came to many people's attention after the Macondo well blowout. [1]
TIL. To be fair, there is a whole landmass right next to that mishigami sharing a name we do need to distinguish it from.
BobaFloutist 41 days ago [-]
It's kind of funny how much the sounds of mishigami feel like they could equally have come from Hebrew or Japanese. Interesting overlap of mouth-feel.
OJFord 42 days ago [-]
To be fair, 'naan bread' is like 'toona fish' or 'feta cheese' which AmE does in English anyway.
mturmon 41 days ago [-]
Related fun fact: The actual tar pits, and the art museum adjacent to it, are basically at the intersection of La Brea Blvd. and La Cienega Blvd., which translates to:
A main tourist attraction of LA is at the intersection of Tar Pits Blvd. and Swamp Blvd.
njarboe 41 days ago [-]
I quite enjoy visiting the La Brea Tar Pits and often do when I'm in LA. The geologist in me really enjoys seeing the natural oil seeps. The area around the museum has large open grassy areas. Often new seeps develop in the grass and you'll see an orange cone placed next to a new spot of oil with bubbles slowly growing and busting with the strong smell of tar/asphalt.
conradev 42 days ago [-]
Yeah – they put cones around the park where the tar is still peeking through the grass. Watch your step!
anonymousiam 42 days ago [-]
(Link to the George C. Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits.)
Its definitely "a big pointy tooth dominating the mouth" kind of feature.
Could also have been called a snaggle-tooth salmon, I guess ..
In any case, definitely an interesting fish.
mtalantikite 42 days ago [-]
So you're telling me Encino Man wasn't fiction
lenerdenator 42 days ago [-]
That, and it's really not nice to refer to a basement bar filled with old Sunset Strip glam metal musicians as "fossils".
brcmthrowaway 42 days ago [-]
The Sunset Strip is really a shadow of its former self
LA is dead
bloopernova 42 days ago [-]
Fun fact: in the UK, Encino Man was titled California Man
vundercind 42 days ago [-]
What’s extra-goofy is I’m pretty sure Encino barely had more recognition in the rest of the US than it does in the UK, before that movie came out. Like, if not for the film, I expect I’d still not be aware of it. So changing it for the UK for (presumably) reasons of familiarity doesn’t make a ton of sense.
It sounds a lot better, too. Should have kept the name.
doodlebugging 42 days ago [-]
So if I have this right then a movie made about kids who find a skunk ape and take him to high school to party with them could be titled Orlando Man here in the states but would end up being titled Florida Man in the UK?
bloopernova 42 days ago [-]
Now that would be a fun found-footage movie.
IncreasePosts 42 days ago [-]
That's essentially the first trailer for GTA6
havblue 42 days ago [-]
If I remember the movie, Paulie Shore presented him as "Estonia Man".
https://news.uoregon.edu/saber-no-more-giant-prehistoric-sal...
Another very cool fossil site in LA is the La Brea Tar Pits museum, which still has tar pits on the museum grounds, and has real sabre-tooths (lions) and other critters like mammoths that got trapped in the tar pits.
I was similarly surprised to find that something similar occurs on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico. This came to many people's attention after the Macondo well blowout. [1]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Brea_Tar_Pits
[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09670...
> The name derives from a gallicized variant of the original Ojibwe word ᒥᓯᑲᒥ (mishigami),[c] meaning "large water" or "large lake".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan
TIL. To be fair, there is a whole landmass right next to that mishigami sharing a name we do need to distinguish it from.
A main tourist attraction of LA is at the intersection of Tar Pits Blvd. and Swamp Blvd.
https://tarpits.org/experience-tar-pits/museum-exhibitions
Its definitely "a big pointy tooth dominating the mouth" kind of feature.
Could also have been called a snaggle-tooth salmon, I guess ..
In any case, definitely an interesting fish.
LA is dead
It sounds a lot better, too. Should have kept the name.